CAYRON, PIERRE-JEAN - Enciclopedia Cattolica, Vol. III, p. 714

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

CAYRON, PIERRE-JEAN. - French Jesuit, born in Rodez on 17 January 1672, entered the novitiate in Toulouse in 1687, died in Toulouse on 31 January 1754, renowned for his holiness. After fourteen years of teaching literature and philosophy, he spent the rest of his life in Toulouse as master of novices and rector of the novitiate (1713–29 and 1733–37), rector of the college (1729–33), superior of the professed house (1737–44), and later spiritual director and, for a time, instructor of the Fathers in their third year of probation. He was distinguished for his humility and mortification and enjoyed a reputation as a remarkable thaumaturge. He actively promoted the cult of St. Francis Régis and his canonization (1737). The processes for his beatification have been entrusted to the Sacred Congregation of Rites.

BIBL.: J. Sérane, Vie du p. P.-Y. C., 1767, modernized by Fr. Couderc, Paris 1904; E. Bouniol, Le serviteur de Dieu P.-Y. C., Toulouse 1886; J. Dissard, Un thaumaturge tout-louisain. Le p. C. S. Y., 1672–1754, Toulouse 1934.

EDMOND LAMALLE